Not exact matches
But dig into the numbers and a clearer picture appears: White
families averaged $ 142,000 in
wealth, Latinx households came in at $ 13,700, and black
families brought up the rear at $ 11,000.
(Undoubtedly, the recent stock market rally certainly has some Americans feeling a lot richer as well, but since
average U.S.
families tend to have most of its
wealth tied up in real estate rather than the financial market, the impact of housing is probably the more relevant one.)
Home - equity
wealth is an important component of
family savings, accounting for about 20 percent of homeowners» net worth, on
average.
Green also reminded the Congressional members present that the «unregulated OTC derivatives market was at the heart of the 2007 - 2008 financial crisis, which cost 8.7 million Americans their jobs, 10 million
families their homes, and eliminated 49 percent of the
average middle - class
family's
wealth compared with 2001 levels.»
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It's worth noting there is a more than $ 100,000 gap between the
average and median household incomes ($ 193,879 vs $ 82,722, respectively), suggesting a small number of
families account for a large part of the
wealth.
Secondly,
wealth levels rose with both education and
average family income.
Poverty is at record levels, with great spikes along racial lines (10 % + higher than the national
average) and for young
families with children (incredibly 37 %) as is
wealth inequality.
During the recovery of the Great Recession, income inequality in the United States accelerated, with 91 % of the gains going to the top 1 % of
families.19 Left out of the recovery were African American
families who, during the downturn, lost an
average of 35 % of their accumulated
wealth.20 African American unemployment increased, home ownership decreased, and child poverty deepened to approximately 46 % of children younger than 6 years.21 Because social mobility is lowest for people in the lowest income quartile, half of African American children who are poor as young children will remain poor as adults, approximately twice as many as white adults similarly exposed to poverty as children.22
Just a few months ago, we explained that a
family that purchased an
average - priced home at the beginning of 2018 could build more than $ 44,000 in
family wealth over the next five years.
Family office investment portfolios rallied impressively in 2016 at an
average return of 7 %, driven by returns from equities, up from the
average of 0.3 % in 2015, according to latest Global
Family Office Report 2017 by Campden
Wealth in partnership with UBS.